[whatwg] Web Applications Markup Language 1.0 is an XUIL?
Dave Hodder
dmh at dmh.org.uk
Tue Aug 3 13:36:43 PDT 2004
I'm not precisely sure of what the Web Applications Markup Language
remit is. However, it seems to me to be a good place to bring *some*
XUL-like features to HTML, but largely to fill in a few (non-forms
related) gaps rather than to turn HTML into a full-blown UI description
language.
One big win from my point of view (BTW I'm a web app developer who has
yet to abandon HTML for Flash) would be tags for drop down menus, that
could contain hyperlinks or be associated with scripting. At present
it's possible to do with JavaScript, or with HTML 'select' elements, but
something less fragile or cludgy I think is called for. *Keyboard
accessibily would be a must.*
XUL does this with its 'menu' element. The XHTML 2.0 Working Drafts
have an 'nl' (navigation list) element which is being actively discussed
at the moment. Both, I think, fit the bill; if it's workable I'd like
to suggest copying the XHTML 2.0 'nl' as much as possible.
Thank you,
Dave
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